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artificial intelligence

A 139-Person Startup Is Training Foundation Models on TikToks to Replace the Entire Camera-to-Timeline Workflow

Mirage, formerly Captions, raised $75M to replace the camera-to-timeline production workflow with a single AI system. The company is hiring ML engineers for its generative video team in NYC, with salaries ranging from $175K to $275K.

6/20/2026, 6:22 PM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
artificial intelligence

The AI Industry Has a 50% Talent Shortage. Kleiner Perkins Is Spending $3.5 Billion to Fill the Gap Its Own Portfolio Created.

Kleiner Perkins closed $3.5B across two new funds in March 2026, betting that the biggest AI returns will come from applications built on top of foundation models. The firm's portfolio spans infrastructure, agentic orchestration, security, and physical AI, with aggressive hiring across its companies

6/20/2026, 8:25 AM PDTBy Priya Nair
artificial intelligence

Cerebras Has 98 Open Positions and a $20 Billion OpenAI Contract. The Engineers It Needs Already Work for Nvidia.

Cerebras Systems' S-1 filing reveals a company that has reoriented around AI inference, anchored by a $20B+ OpenAI deal for 750MW of low-latency capacity. With $510M revenue, first profitable year, and a $56.4B IPO valuation, the wafer-scale chipmaker is betting inference economics beat Nvidia at it

6/19/2026, 8:20 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
artificial intelligence

A Nobel Laureate Left Google for Anthropic. The 23 Roles Added This Week Explain Why.

John Jumper, co-creator of AlphaFold and 2024 Nobel laureate, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. His move, alongside Noam Shazeer's exit to OpenAI, signals a shift in AI talent. Anthropic's aggressive hiring in developer productivity and infrastructure reveals its next major platform ambitions.

6/19/2026, 3:22 PM PDTBy Daniel Reyes
artificial intelligence

OpenAI Has 700 Million Users. Mistral Has 1% Enterprise Adoption and a Zero-Percent Switch Rate.

Mistral AI is expanding into Montreal, hiring its first Canadian employees to build a deployment and services layer around its open-source models. The move targets bilingual AI talent, Quebec's French-speaking enterprise sectors, and favorable tax incentives.

6/19/2026, 9:34 AM PDTBy John Hugo
artificial intelligence

The Average Firmware Engineer Earns $165,000. Anthropic Is Paying $405,000 to Lock Down the Hardware Beneath Its AI Models

Anthropic is hiring platform hardware security engineers with deep firmware and systems security expertise, offering up to $485,000. The roles reveal the AI company's push to secure bare-metal GPU infrastructure from silicon to OS, driven by enterprise demand for supply-chain integrity and hardware-

6/18/2026, 6:36 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
artificial intelligence

SpaceX Is Hiring AI Engineers in Palo Alto to Run Models Inside Rocket Design — and the Salary Band Tells You How Serious Musk Is

SpaceX is hiring AI inference engineers in Palo Alto, far from its Hawthorne headquarters. The role pays $135K–$160K and signals SpaceX's growing software ambitions beyond rocket hardware.

6/18/2026, 2:24 PM PDTBy Sarah Mitchell
artificial intelligence

**McKinsey Invested $4 Billion in a Company That Competes With McKinsey — and OpenAI Is the Reason**

OpenAI launched DeployCo, a standalone subsidiary backed by over $4 billion, embedding its engineers inside enterprises to build production AI systems. Modeled on Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer approach, it acquires Tomoro's 150 engineers and deploys exclusively on OpenAI models.

6/17/2026, 7:26 PM PDTBy James Okafor
artificial intelligence

Harvey's Mistral and Ansarada Deals Created Engineering Roles That Require Fluency in RAG Pipelines, Contract Lifecycles, and EU Data Law — All at Once

Harvey raised $760M across four rounds in 2025, surging from a $3B to $11B valuation. With 282 open roles and $100M+ ARR, the legal-AI startup is hiring aggressively across engineering, AI platform, and a new hybrid role: Legal Engineer.

6/17/2026, 12:14 PM PDTBy David Yu
artificial intelligence

Sierra AI Has 115 Open Roles Across 10 Countries. The Ones That Matter Most Require Fluency in Arabic, Cantonese, or Thai — and Customer-Service Domain Knowledge.

Sierra AI's $15.8B valuation after a $950M Series E signals a massive hiring surge. The company is creating new roles like 'Agent Engineer' and 'Agent Operator' as it scales to serve over 40% of the Fortune 50.

6/16/2026, 7:21 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
artificial intelligence

Japan lacks 126,000 AI engineers. OpenAI's Tokyo office is hiring account directors.

OpenAI opened its first Asian office in Tokyo on April 15, 2024, installing former AWS Japan chief Tadao Nagasaki as president. With 50 roles added in a single week — led by an Account Director for Financial Services — the Tokyo office is a commercial beachhead, not a research outpost. Here's why Ja

6/15/2026, 9:20 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
artificial intelligence

OpenAI Added 50 Roles in a Single Week — and the Safety Researchers It Wants Are the Same Ones Anthropic and DeepMind Are Chasing

OpenAI is expanding its London office into its largest research hub outside the US, backed by a UK government data residency partnership. The campus will house core model development, safety, and deployment teams, with active hiring for safety research, data science, and integrity engineering roles

6/15/2026, 2:18 PM PDTBy John Hugo
artificial intelligence

A senior ML engineer in Paris typically earns €80K. Mistral is paying $192K. The engineers who can write a Navier-Stokes solver AND debug a distributed GPU training run are the reason.

Mistral AI's €3 billion funding round values the Paris-based lab at roughly €11.7–$13.8 billion, placing it in a different weight class than most European AI startups. The article examines how this aggressive valuation drives hiring velocity, with headcount more than doubling in under two years, and

6/14/2026, 12:15 PM PDTBy David Yu
artificial intelligence

Hundreds of applicants pile into generic "AI safety" postings while adversarial red-teaming and integrity engineering roles sit underfilled — and pay up to $1 million.

OpenAI's Integrity team, housed inside Applied Engineering, employs Machine Learning Engineers in San Francisco at $266,000–$555,000 plus equity. Their…

6/11/2026, 2:56 PM PDTBy Marcus Bennett
artificial intelligence

Block cut 4,000 workers, then quietly brought some back with raises. Klarna replaced 700 with AI, then admitted it "went too far." The layoff wave is real — and so is the rehiring.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey cut roughly 4,000 employees in early March 2026 (about 40% of the company's workforce) and told analysts AI models had gotten "an…

6/11/2026, 11:46 AM PDTBy Andrew Chang
artificial intelligence

Forward-deployed engineer job listings jumped more than 800% in nine months — and the job that didn't exist 18 months ago is the one paying $241,000

The real bottleneck to AI revenue isn't the model. It's what happens after the contract is signed.

6/11/2026, 2:33 AM PDTBy Rachel Kim
electrical engineering

Defense-Tech Is Building a Space Electronics Talent Pipeline in Boulder — and It's Competing Directly With AI Salaries

Boulder, Colorado, has become an unexpected battleground where defense-tech companies building space electronics infrastructure are competing directly…

6/10/2026, 8:22 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
careers

Cleared Defense Test Engineers Get 3 Recruiter Calls a Week

A cleared hardware test engineer working in defense tech can expect three recruiter calls a week. Not three per month. Per week. That frequency — reported…

6/10/2026, 5:27 PM PDTBy Rachel Kim
artificial intelligence

OpenAI Is Paying Up to $445,000 to Teach AI Some Manners

OpenAI is hiring for a new kind of AI engineering role at the frontier of agent development — and it signals a structural shift in how the industry thinks…

6/10/2026, 4:25 PM PDTBy Priya Nair
aerospace engineering

SpaceX Has Over 1,000 Jobs Open in Texas as Musk Reads Applications Himself

On May 21, 2026, Elon Musk announced he would personally review SpaceX job applications as the company filed for a record $1.5–2 trillion IPO. Over 1,000 Texas roles are open across Starship, Starlink, and the new SpaceXAI division — and the offers are reshaping the state's engineering labor market.

6/10/2026, 12:04 PM PDTBy James Okafor

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